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8pm: chaotic cinema >>
time lapse film by KATE BURTON accompanied by live strings and amplified objects by THE GAUGE OF MIRE AND SWING.
Super 8 and digital video, constructing spatially animated sequences from single frames .The most resent work "Ocean" makes reference to Maya Deren's "AT LAND" and scenes from David Lynch's "TWIN PEAKS". The musicians\artists wanted to create an environment for sound and image. Taking their unique roles and placing them together to create new dimensions and structures. The process involved many parts and collaborative process's including improvisations created as soundtracks for the films. The structure to the space suggests a chaotic live cinema.
Kate Burton, a graduate of Glasgow
School of Art (environmental fine art) works with some of the traditional optical
techniques of experimental film, such as time lapse, stop start animation and
montage. Her films aim to emphasize the physicality of environments captured
within film focusing on single frame, light saturation and the mastering of
surface. Time lapse within the films offers a certain displacement of reality
or a change of sequential basis within time; she aims to magnify upon the principles
of cinema construction.
The films Garden (2003) Plain of silence (2003) and Slope (2003) were constructed
during the collaboration process with Age of Wire and String.
The Gauge of Mire and Swing will be tonight's new formation for the musical trio the age of wire and string (P. Nicholson, N.Davidson plus one or 2 guest improvisors).
Formed in February 2003, age of wire
and string is an improvising trio comprising Peter Nicholson - cello, Neil Davidson
- guitar and Jamie Allen. electronic processing. This is the first improvising
group the players have worked in; much of the music made so far has been more
exploratory than definitive, this however is not a drawback since the anticipated
purpose of this sort of musical activity is for it to be explorative. Technically
speaking the guitar and cello are processed live by various homemade computer
programmes. Some additional external sounds are used from time to time.
There has been a steady increase of interest into this music following the inaugural
workshops of the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra in October of 2002 at the CCA
free radicals festival. Bearing in mind that there has never been what one could
call a free improvised music scene in Glasgow, or Scotland for that matter,
this can only be a good thing. Members of age of wire and string have also played
with Christoph Reiserer from Munich and Raymond MacDonald from the Burt MacDonald
Quartet.
Plans for the time being are to play as much as possible in the Glasgow area
and thereafter to venture further a field to the more established communities
of free improvising musicians in Europe.
| 8.30pm: ABLAB >>ablab
uses web technology as an instrument. A desktop exectutive toy to infiltrate office hours and stimulate idle musing. Turn the lights off and tickle the memory with a cortex massage. Given away for free it comes back empty handed but happy. The only thing missing is a full belly and a smart new suit. ablab uses little bits of information hooked into programmed loops, reiterated at high speed. The machine generates sound fields from miniscule blips hooked to codes of colour and shape. online, faced with a cryptic console for interaction, experiments build a shifting cyberspace. A plastic rhetoric for projection in which to combine your own ideas. Not a webspace in which to learn things. performed live, ablab is a thin digital skin over a mousy player. Watch the one-fingered musician pick out a tune from amidst the grinding processor rhythms and the ever-ready power surge. |
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9.30pm: flicker >>
AV performance by VJ RODELL
:Flicker
An AV performance collaboration between Vj Rodell and Defcon Stylus.
Lens-head Rodell will Vj with content solely, created and sampled live on the
night using multiple cameras, and elemental installation cubes filled with smoke,
plants, insects(?) etc. These delicate video collages will complement the sounds
of Defcon Stylus in action. With the aid of a mixer, a Kaoss pad, steel-rulers
and feedback, Defcon Stylus engages with a single turntable to create shifting
rhythms and deep sonic textures with flickering surface detail. No vinyl is
played.
VJ RODELL moved from Glasgow to Bristol in 1998. He is one of the founders of the Cube Microplex Cinema where he organised events such as the Eye-Jam festival. He runs the Beam VJ agency.
some of the light boxes/ props used to generate video samples.
http://www.beamproductions.co.uk
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